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Ok, so if you are like me, a parent of two young children and an iPhone owner, you most likely have installed a few apps for your kids to use and play with in certain situations – when they are screaming and just won’t calm down, or when they are in a full blown meltdown and you are stuck in traffic on the evening commute. I know, that isn’t going to make them stop that behavior anytime soon…but c’mon, I can only handle so much whine!
So I did a little snooping around on some app sites and some iTunes app searches for things like “christmas” “holiday” “snow” and a few others. I was able to find the following pretty cool apps that my kids have been using. I like the more educational games for my 5 and 3 year old.
Santa’s Village – Reindeer Match ‘em Up
FREE for a limited time! Reindeer Match’em Up is a matching game with the 8 splendidly drawn reindeer figures.
Santa’s Village – Snowman Math Build a snowman by answering simple addition and subtraction questions. FREE for a limited time!
Features: Kids can answer simple addition and subtraction questions to help build a snowman. There is Christmas music playing in the background while the kids are answering the math problems.
There is also a Christmas Music streaming app that is half decent. It’s called XmasRadio (search app store for this name), but the real name is Christmas Radio by BluMediaLab.com. This app gives you on-demand Christmas music so you can now get into the holiday mood with endless music selections.
[Candyland, 2/12/2009] It looks like tonight that Mr. Mint and GrammaNutt have finally been caught. What crime did they commit? Let’s just say they were in the wrong place when cops raided Gum Drop Mountain after an anonymous tip.
In parenting terms…I gave my children’s Candyland game a time-out.
Why you may ask?
Well because it was getting late in the evening and we were all playing a quiet game of Candyland. My wife usually “stacks the deck” in favor of our kids and lets them draw the cards with the candycane, gumdrop, gingerbread man, etc. Well for whatever reason — I drew a pretty sweet card and traveled the the front of the pack, at least 20 spaces in front of my 4 year old son. Well……….
Tip #337 of the Parenting Guide – Let you Kids Win
With the combo of being 10 minutes from bed time, me going halfway to the finish line (in front of my son), that just made my son just lose it. He said, “I don’t want to play anymore, I NEVER want to play again!” Of course, those words were just that — words. But he pushed all the pieces off the board and I just about had it and therefore took the game and stuck it on the top of our canopy bed frame. In a time-out!
“HAH!!! that’ll teach you,” I thought with a smug look on my face. Well did it work?
50/50 I would say. Of course, I actually felt like I got my point across to him. He was saying sorry about 100x at Formula 1 speeds – he does that when he knows he’s wrong and my wife and I are going to take something away or not allow him to do something as a form of punishment. He knew that he did something wrong, but he was just over tired and couldn’t think it through.
Sure, I was being a hard-ass Dad, but i just needed to do this. My son is NOT the type of kid that does well in time-out (himself) so i resorted to removing the game from the child. I read that somewhere a year or so ago, ‘stick the game or toy into timeout has good results’ (I’ll have to dig up that article again).
My son one that can be talked down from his rants and rages by my wife -God bless her! She is really good at talking to him and making him understand what happened, why he was in trouble, and in this case, why the game was in time out on top of our bed frame!
I guess my point is this: Parents, choose wisely on what you punish for and how you punish. Maybe I went a little overboard on this one…but I still think he learned from it.
I just finally sat down to see how to connect my 4 yr old’s new Leapster2 to the Leapster web site and create his profile…
But as I’m typing this, looks like more than just my son got a Leapster this Christmas. I’d say a whole lotta kids did due to the error I’m getting on Leapfrog’s web site. Site is down, probably from all the parents and kids attempting to connect to it!
Maybe I’ll try again later…
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The article discusses that playing board games can turn your child into a math whiz. This is especially true with number-based board games such as Chutes and Ladders, dominos, pick up sticks and other math oriented children games.
From my view point I can definitely see this in my son’s knowledge of numbers and counting. Logan is going on 4 years this fall and he loves to count items, find numbers, and is getting close to figuring out some simple addition or subtraction. I repeatedly tell him when he gives me an item, “He buddy you have one block and if you give it to me how many will you have left?” Or “you have one truck and if you take mine, how many trucks will you have?” I can see him think it through, which is so cool! His little mind is moving so fast but he is definitely pondering the question.
“Parents and preschool teachers should know that playing number board games increases young children’s numerical understanding and lays a solid foundation for future learning of mathematics as well,” says Carnegie Mellon Prof. Robert Siegler, coauthor of the study.
[Candyland, 2/12/2009] It looks like tonight that Mr. Mint and Gramma Nutt have finally been caught. What crime did they commit? Let’s just say they were in the wrong place when cops raided Gum Drop Mountain after an anonymous tip.
